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How to Calmly Resolve Any Disagreement

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Do you have disagreements with your spouse? If you do, congratulations! That means your relationship is alive and kicking. All happy couples have conflicts. If you didn’t have any, I’d be worried for you. That’s because when you don’t care enough to disagree, your relationship may just as well be dead.

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In this post you’re going to learn how to express disagreement in a structured and non-threatening way. If you can handle complaints (and even criticism) without feeling attacked, you can turn any disagreement into a connecting exercise that only makes your relationship stronger.

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How to Start a Difficult Conversation

5 Tips to Starting a Difficult Conversation That You Are Dreading

Imagine you’re a small business owner. A difficult issue comes up and it involves one of your most valuable customers. You know each other for years and they’ve been there in the good times and the bad times.

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But something has come up and you need to have a sincere talk with them. So you pick up the phone. Then what?

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The Best Way to Get What You Want in Your Marriage and Beyond

Get What You Want Without Complaining

Have you ever been on a diet? Has it ever happened that while you were going toward the fridge, you were telling yourself, “I shouldn’t eat that cake, I really shouldn’t.”

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Then your hand somehow got into the fridge. You actually saw it going in there! You grabbed the plate with the cake, took it out, and ate it. What happened?

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6 Ways Your Subconscious is Affecting Your Marriage Right Now

Why is your spouse not listening to you

Do you sometimes you wish your spouse would just listen? But they don’t. They won’t. What’s wrong with them? Why can’t they understand what you’re saying?

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No, you’re not speaking Martian. Your spouse hears what you’re saying just fine. But they don’t listen. In this post you’re going to learn 6 surprising facts about the particular part of your brain that literally prevents them from listening to you.

Specifically, we’re going to talk about a tiny, almond-shaped part of your brain. It’s extremely powerful and it can literally save your life! Uncontrolled though, it can leave deep scars in your relationship, and your marriage. For life.

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Are You Hypnotizing Your Spouse Without Them Knowing?

Effects of constant criticism

I bet you can be a pretty good hypnotist. How do I know?

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If you’ve ever complained to your loved one about what they did (or didn’t do), chances are you were hypnotizing them to do more of the same. Here’s why.

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How to Disagree Without Inviting Resentment

How to Disagree With Your Spouse

Have you ever met someone who just seemed to end your every thought with “but?” It starts to get annoying, right? It feels like nothing you say is valid, because they know better.

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It seems that in our society every other sentence contains the word ‘but’. The other person says something, and we soon follow with a big ‘but.’ Beware, though. ‘But’ is a little word with big consequences.

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How to Know What Your Spouse Really Thinks

How to be a good listener in marriage

Great listeners listen to understand. Lousy ones listen to reply. Here’s another truth. Great listeners also know how to ask so they get a meaningful answer.

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In this post you’ll discover how to formulate your questions the right way so you will be able to get your spouse to open up—no matter how distant they feel.

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6 Simple Ways to Avoid Boredom in Marriage

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A romantic relationships study by the Huffington Post and Reader’s Digest (“The Normal Bar,” 2011) looked at more than 100,000 people. It found that boredom was the leading reason couples gave for infidelity.

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A full 71 percent of men and 49 percent of women who had affairs said they did so because they were bored. Boredom also leads spouses to try to escape dreary marriages in other dangerous ways, such as excessive drinking of alcohol, overeating, and pursuing hobbies outside the home (at the expense of family), to name just a few.

So, what can you do to avoid boredom in marriage?

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How to Instantly Make Your Spouse Feel Special

How to make your spouse feel special

Successful couples love each other deeply, but they don’t rely on loving feelings to come naturally.
They create them.

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This post is about how you can reach out to your spouse and make them feel special, no matter how busy you are. In fact, you’ll be able to start right now (or right when your spouse gets home). 

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6 Traits of a Happy Marriage

6 Traits of a Happy Marriage

It’s no small feat, spending 18,000 days with another human being. And be able to do so happily? Marriage isn’t the honeymoon on a remote beach—it’s day five of vacation #19 that you take together.

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Marriage is not a celebration for buying your first house—it’s having dinner in that house for the 3,285th time. And it’s certainly not Valentine’s Day or a barbecue party for your birthday.

Marriage is Forgettable Tuesday. Together.

So I’ll leave the butterflies, the roses, your heartbeat chanting your loved one’s name, the kisses in the rain, and the three-times-a-day sex to you—you’ll work that part out, I’m sure.

This post is about the best way to make Forgettable Tuesday (and all others that follow) happy ones.

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